2025 Wild Card Round

Red Sox - Yankees

Tigers - Guardians

Padres - Cubs

Reds - Dodgers

Shoutout to the Cubs for having day games I can watch, however I will be hoping the Padres paste them for Shaw & Busch reasons.

As a Jays fan, I'm a lot more interested in the outcome of the AL series. Both feel like coin flips.

I will never root for the Yankees in any form or context, no matter the opponent, but other than that I'm OK with any outcome for any of these four series.

Greene vs Snell is a great Game 1 matchup, I can see the Reds winning and scoring a huge upset. And obviously Francona knows how to manage his way through a long postseason.

yanks-sox feels like a close one. already counting game 1 as a crochet-induced loss, but the yankees have the pitching advantage for games 2 and 3. i have never experienced a wild card series as a fan, excited for an entirely new type of stress

Absolutely amazed at the Guardian's hitting ability. The lowest team batting average to make it to the postseason was, I believe, the 1906 White Sox with a .230 BA. The Guardos are batting a cool .226.

damn .226 !

rooting red sox, tigers, and cubs. i don't care enough about the reds to root for an unlikely upset of the dodgers.

Rooting: Sox, don't care, Pads, Reds
Expecting: too close to call x 3, Dodgers

If I was a betting man:
Yanks > Sox
Tigers > Guardians
Cubs > Padres
Dodgers > Reds

Red Sox - Yankees - NYY (hot)

Tigers - Guardians - CLE (hot)

Padres - Cubs - pickem (cubs i guess?)

Reds - Dodgers - LAD (because)

Red Sox, Guardians, Padres, Dodgers imo.

As I watch Tarik Skubal, a six foot three ace who dominates the mound toss yet another scoreless inning I have the same thought I’ve been having every time I see this man mountain dominate: where on earth does he get pants to fit him

Red Sox - Yankees

Tigers - Guardians

Padres - Cubs

Reds - Dodgers

No shit he’s safe

Skubal might smash all the cameras if it’s overturned

Guardians score the only way they know how. High chopper!

xp gavin williams is actually taller than skubal and not skinny-tall either

“Fucking bloop merchants” - Skubal probably

xp Skubal is not skinny tall he fills his pants out

oh yeah i just mean gavin williams is thicc in the same way that skubal is thicc

also i believe cleveland are the slap hitting shit goblins, not bloop merchants

https://i.postimg.cc/DwX4YYNP/G2-Dahj-Hbw-AEVYJr.jpg

all signs pointing to a dodgers loss

https://i.postimg.cc/kMKZqnbn/IMG-1904.jpg

god i love small ball

User Sharivari perked up on realising that Bo Naylor’s walkup song is Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls. He ground out.

tork has to stop that

Who in the world is this good ol' boy in the Pads/Cubs broadcast?

are you kidding me ;_;

Jfc Jram

Who in the world is this good ol' boy in the Pads/Cubs broadcast?

Ben McDonald I think? Does commentary for the Orioles, I’ve heard him sometimes and wondered “Who put Will the Thrill’s dick in a blender?”

Kevin Brown will be on play-by-play. He'll be joined by Jessica Mendoza and Ben McDonald as analyst. Jesse Rogers will be reporting. ESPN Radio will feature Mike Couzens and Chris Burke.

Still haven't decided if I want the Yankees or Red Sox. I supect Boston is the tougher team for the Jays, but I also dread facing Judge/Stanton if they happen to be on fire.

Sorry, been out all day--didn't realize one game's already finished and second is underway.

The Padres should have three runs, now it comes back to bit them

happy that mason miller gets to play in the offs :)

watched an orioles broadcast for the first time in a long time today; jim palmer is still great at 79 -- what hall-of-fame player also has a voice that good? it just sounds like baseball -- and i quite like kevin brown. i'll assume ben mcdonald is an acquired taste

― mookieproof, Thursday, April 3, 2025 9:05 PM (five months ago)

Why is Eddie Vedder there wearing a cubs shirt when the vedder cup is famously Padres-Mariners

Fuck was that throw

Have we talked about how ridiculously handsome Max Fried is yet on ILB? Hard to root against beauty

Max Fried looks like a man who's been at sea for 6 months but im also not here to yuck your yum as the kids say

he's no dansbae

Fried is very handsome but that facial hair is awful

He looks so slim on the mound I was really surprised he was like 6’4”, built like an F1 driver and not, like, Lincecum sized

xxxp finding it really hard to conceive that in anyway being a negative statement. Dansbae is too 80s-coming-of-age-movie-jock-antagonists-nicer-best-friend-coded. But yeah, yuck yum or whatever

The facial hair is what has my eyes wandering back just when I think it's time to move on. What are those little hairs doing there? So wrong yet so right

Lucas Giolito is out til 2026.

Leave Crochet in? He had a 6 pitch 7th inning.

this is hot

Crazy, can the Yankees come back?

I’m not one to cheer for the Yankees - but don’t mind one bit watching Chapman struggle here

Was manifesting a Bellibomb but I'll take it

oooooh big strike out

yup, hope this doesn't end in a double play, too fun of an inning

Crazy catch, xp otm

"the padres are right where they want to be"

cubs showing us mets fans why defense matters :(

Typo of the day: "Nogaerts"

wow

Was in the wrong thread, this is fun

I don't know about that

Charges mind

robo umps when? this is embarrassing:

https://i.imgur.com/1TWzPcK.png

well, five runs in three games isn't gonna get it done

(tbf six shouldn't either)

Padres just can't get out of their own way

alternate robo-ump universe:

jmerrill hr (1-3)
bogaerts walks on 6 bbs
ohearn hbp
bjohnson hbp (bases loaded no outs)
bogaerts scores on the bobble (2-3)
1 out, runners on second and third
ohearn scores on fermin's sac fly to CF
3-3 tie game

It was a ball. Definitely sacks that it probably cost them

Feels like the first chance I've had to settle down and watch one of these games...still not sure who I want to win. I've never felt older than right now, looking at this Boston starter.

Can the Sox not afford to take him out? Not even a mound visit, feels weird

never root for the yankees, clemenza

I mean a bit of bad babip luck for Early, but there's been a lot of bat on ball this inning

seems like they left Early in...

(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)

...a little too late

Hard, I know, I just feel like Boston will be tougher--Crochet twice in a five-game series would be daunting. (The radio guys today said he'd start twice, I don't know how accurate this is.) Anyway, Cora better be careful, this game is on the verge of getting out of hand.

Hmm

I think he's a little late on being careful

Ya Buck was saying the Red Sox would be a harder team for the jays to face. Neither team is perfect (BOS or NY) - but the Yankees make me more nervous than the Sox. Esp now that Giolitto is out.

I don't know if a guy can become a legend in a WC series, but Schlittler's giving it a go.

i don't really think that matchups matter so much in a five-game series? play well and you win.

i'd just hate to see any otherwise neutral fan support the yankees

Dreaming, I know, but I hope Boone sends him out for the 9th.

my back of the envelope match has schittler with a game score of 89, which would be in the top 25 ever in a playoff game

espn says

Game Scores: C Schlittler 84

(which is pretty damn good!)

If the Jays-Yankees were to go 5, I'll set the over-under for how many official AB Judge gets at 12.

Schlittler was born/raised BoSox fan which makes this kinda 🙃

Schlittler was born/raised BoSox fan which makes this kinda 🙃

Schlittler and Rice, both MA natives. Brutal combo.

Hopefully the Jays roll these Yankees over now, too bad there wasn’t a guy who famously killed the Yankees on the Sox who might have made a difference this series!

yeah, i heard that mentioned during the pregame on the radio - Schlittler's never getting a warm family reunion welcome from here on out!

Great series for the Jarren Duran hatewatch crowd (me)

Nb I did not watch this game, I had to go to sleep early to get up early but I just woke up

Man I'm glad this game was on too late for me to get sucked into

Red Sox very mid team this year with all the injuries, trading away their best hitter etc - this is the ceiling of what I could have expected. I'm not a big fan of the Jays but of course I'm hoping they trounce los Yanks

Lotta small-ball teams left and I have this horrible feeling this could be Judge's year. All he and Stanton have to do to beat these teams is hit a few home runs. But man I wouldn't mind, say, Brewers-Tigers or Brewers-Mariners

But they were tremendously locked in!

Turns out you can’t outvibe talent.

check out these fuckin babies: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/san-diego-padres/news/padres-players-coaches-get-heated-altercation-umpires-after-season-ending-loss-cubs/81ddd64251307adf7e195abc

do you guys start a real playoffs thread now?

i do feel bad for the padres though. they are the small market team that spent big and went into debt to do so. top 5 fanbase. they are the dads who stepped up.

they have Manny Machado on their team so fuck them

not seeing anybody give jose ramirez grief for not legging out second base on that bad throw in the bottom of the 8th yesterday. what's up with that?

do you guys start a real playoffs thread now?

I’ll do that later today, catch all division series threads or a thread for every match in case any of them attract hatewatchers?

1 rolling offs thread is fine

K

rolling CS/DS thread is fine... maybe even tag on WS based on low traffic round these parts.

No way, WS should always have it's own thread.

Low traffic? Considering the posters here, I'm expecting 500+ posts on Yanks vs Jays, particularly if it goes five.

look i'm going to come clean i don't want to see the word "Yankees" at the top of SNA if i don't have to

No way, WS should always have it's own thread.

Agree--think there's been an unbroken string of WS threads since I came on here in 2010.

Looked at the 2010 WS thread vs. last year's...the drop-off in posting is clear, but actually not as drastic as I expected (which probably says more about how drastic a drop-off I expected): 877 posts ---> 611 posts. (The great 2011 WS generated 1,081 posts.)

TOR NYY - TOR
SEA DET - SEA

MIL CHC - MIL
LAD PHI - pickem but PHI i think